Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Employment Advisor

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join the rollout of the highly successful Employment Advisor in Talking Therapies Programme in Lancaster and Morecambe. This role is currently fixed term until March 2025 and is part of a new initiative for the service across the country. The principle aim of the initiative has been to create a culture of prevention and earlyintervention, to make sure that people get timely access to health support and suitable employment support so that they avoid long term unemployment. The integrated Employment Advisor service promotes the link between being in work and achieving improved health outcomes.

Main duties of the job

This role will involve working closely with Counsellors, CBT Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners who provide psychological therapies to people with common mental health problems. The post holder will offer employment support to service users with common mental health problems to gain, return to or retain employment. The role will involve working directly with Jobcentre Plus, employers, trade unions and employment agencies to keep people in employment and secure employment opportunities.

We have strong links with local GPs, secondary care mental health services and voluntary sector providers. The post holder will be based within the recruitment locality

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Date posted

29 November 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

24 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-BAY547-LT-A

Job locations

Cameron House

Lancaster

LA1 4XF

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A degree in a relevant area or equivalent experience in employment advice or mental health

Knowledge

Essential

Experience of providing vocational/employment support.
Good understanding of return to work planning.
Knowledge to understand the work implications of these conditions, confidence, fear of failure etc.
Knowledge of employment and disability related benefits.

Skills

Essential

Effective written and oral communication skills.
Ability to prioritise and plan own caseload.
Ability to assess individual strengths in relation to employment.
Ability to collect and report data to support service performance and evaluation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A degree in a relevant area or equivalent experience in employment advice or mental health

Knowledge

Essential

Experience of providing vocational/employment support.
Good understanding of return to work planning.
Knowledge to understand the work implications of these conditions, confidence, fear of failure etc.
Knowledge of employment and disability related benefits.

Skills

Essential

Effective written and oral communication skills.
Ability to prioritise and plan own caseload.
Ability to assess individual strengths in relation to employment.
Ability to collect and report data to support service performance and evaluation.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cameron House

Lancaster

LA1 4XF

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cameron House

Lancaster

LA1 4XF

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)